HMS Victory Nelsons flag ship is moored in Portsmouth Harbour.


HMS Victory is birthed in Portsmouth harbour. On 7th May 1765 HMS Victory was floated out of the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard. In the years to come, over an unusually long service, she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War. In 1805 she achieved lasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Nelson in Britain's greatest naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar.


Size: 4608px × 3456px
Location: Portsmouth,Docks
Photo credit: © Glyn Fletcher / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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